Alpha Loren

Max's Point of View

"I have a lead," I announced marching into the Alpha's office at the base and slamming an envelope down on his desk.

His head, which had been staring down at the same set of papers and photos that had been there all day, suddenly shot up to reveal a set of agitated but tired eyes.

"What?" he asked. 

His shock didn't surprise me. The week had been a series of dead ends with no evidence or clues pointing to Ella's location. It was almost as if she had been plucked from the world. 

"I have a lead. Look," I insisted, pushing the envelope closer to him.

He pulled the papers out of the envelope and looked intently. The idea had come to me as I was writing a list of all the people I knew hated the Alpha early that day.

"We know that it was somebody that has something against you-"

down much," he

a clean, organised, large-scale operation without leaving any evidence. That cuts rogues out of the question. And we also

don't know that for sure," he interjected again

said 'we have what we came for'. Doesn't that suggest they wanted her alive. And don't you think that if they did kill her, they'd want you to know? It's been a

contents of the envelope, which consisted of some documents from the pack database

said before casting his eyes back

few minutes later he had read all the

think it's him? Lennard Giodarno. A self-proclaimed King? I remember you telling me about this so-called Kingdom when you first came back to the pack.

would have left even if I didn't find fucking Nicolos Jones alive and well. But I can tell you one thing," I said before pointing to the photo of Lennard Giodarno. "That man loathes you with a fiery, burning passion. He told me he was planning something big so if the Kingdom grew, which we have reason to believe that it did, there is no reason why he shouldn't be our prime suspect."

wouldn't let them kill his daughter which explains why she's probably been spared," he said through gritted teeth as if it was painful to complement the man. 

now?" I asked.

them in due course but my mate is my priority. How long were you there for again?" he